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28 февраля 2024 07:12

📒 None so deaf as those who will not hear

📖Meaning
Nobody is deafer than the person who decides he does not want to listen. Often used in reference to prejudice and intolerance.

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27 февраля 2024 05:44

📚rags to riches


✍🏾Meaning
If you go from rags to riches, you start out very poor and you become very rich.

❗️For example

🔸My grandfather went from rags to riches when his dishwashing liquid became very popular. He started out making it at home, but in less than a year he had his own factory.

🔸Most of these young guys in professional basketball came from poor neighbourhoods and they all have the same rags-to-riches story.

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26 февраля 2024 06:17

📒 Everything comes to him who waits


📖Meaning
Patient people eventually receive all things.

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25 февраля 2024 08:17

📚a ballpark figure | a ballpark estimate


✍🏾Meaning
If you give a ballpark figure or a ballpark estimate, you give a number which you think is fairly close to the actual one.

❗️For example

🔸We don't know the exact cost, but a ballpark figure would be around six million dollars.

🔸I know you can't tell me exactly when it'll be finished, but can you give me a ballpark estimate?

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24 февраля 2024 12:13

📒 Give a thief enough rope and he'll hang himself


📖Meaning
A bad person will sooner or later be the cause of his own downfall.

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22 февраля 2024 19:46

📒advise of


📖Meaning
If you advise someone of something, you tell them about it.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 A policemen advised me of my rights and then he arrested me.

💬 Please advise us of any change of address or contact details.


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21 февраля 2024 21:47

💠 kook 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a strange or eccentric person

❕For example

🔺There's this kook in my apartment building with snake tattoos on his face and he keeps these giant pythons as pets.

🔺Why did Margaret marry a kook like that guy Jim? He thinks he's some sort of Indian holy man or something.

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20 февраля 2024 20:33

📒move in (2)


📖Meaning
to move closer, especially when you're trying to attack or catch someone or something

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The lioness spotted a young antelope and crouched in the grass, waiting for the right moment to move in for the kill.

💬 The soldiers had to wait for the signal before moving in.


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19 февраля 2024 18:45

💠 sicko 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a deranged or perverted person

❕For example

🔺For a moment I thought there was some sicko with a knife behind me, but it turned out to be my boyfriend sticking his finger in my back.

🔺Did you see the photos of what those sicko prison guards at Abu Ghraib did?

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18 февраля 2024 19:11

📒move into


📖Meaning
to begin living or working in a new place, or to go into a new type of business

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 I'll be busy on Saturday because I'm moving into a new apartment.

💬 We'd like to move into a new area of business, and we're thinking it might be advertising.


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17 февраля 2024 20:43

💠 hooker 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a female prostitute, a woman who provides sexual services for payment

❕For example

🔺When we were in Amsterdam we went to this area with heaps of hookers sitting behind windows waiting for customers.

🔺One of the best things the government did was to educate hookers about the importance of getting their clients to wear condoms to stop AIDS from spreading.

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15 февраля 2024 21:03

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15 февраля 2024 10:47

📚kick the bucket


✍🏾Meaning
If someone kicks the bucket, they die.

❗️For example

🔸When I kick the bucket, you can just bury me under a tree at the bottom of the garden.

🔸Did you see the movie "Bucket List"? It's about these two old guys who make a list of all the things they want to do before they kick the bucket.

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14 февраля 2024 08:46

📒 He that wills the end wills the means


📖Meaning
If you are determined to do something you will find the way to do it.

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13 февраля 2024 09:36

📚so far, so good


✍🏾Meaning
You can say "so far, so good" when you're in the middle of doing something, and everything has been going well.


❗️For example

🔸Tom: "How's the new job going?" Jerry: "So far, so good."

🔸At half-time, the coach looked at his players and said, "So far, so good, but the job's not done yet. Get back out there and fight till the end."

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27 февраля 2024 19:46

📒cut out (1)


📖Meaning
to remove an area of paper or cloth from a larger sheet by cutting

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 My little girl likes cutting out the shapes of animals or fruits and colouring them in.

💬 She cut the recipe out and stuck it on the fridge.


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26 февраля 2024 20:37

💠 off the wall 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
eccentric, extreme, unconventional

❕For example

🔺Some of the clothes that young fashion designers create these days are so off the wall that no-one could possibly wear them in daily life.

🔺Some of Jenny's ideas seem pretty off the wall when you first hear them, but when she explains them you can see where she's coming from.

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25 февраля 2024 19:24

📒whip into


📖Meaning
to create strong emotions like excitement or anger, usually by giving a speech or a performance of some sort

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The protest leaders whipped the crowd into an angry mood with their speeches.

💬 Elvis Presley used to whip crowds of teenagers into a frenzy by moving his hips to the beat of the music.


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24 февраля 2024 19:08

💠 vegetate | veg out 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
to do nothing

❕For example

🔺I never go out on Sundays. It's my day for doing nothing except vegetating.

🔺I ain't got no energy so I'm just gonna to sit in front of the TV and veg out.

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23 февраля 2024 10:40

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22 февраля 2024 07:18

📚fresh as a daisy


✍🏾Meaning
If you feel as fresh as a daisy, you feel energetic and lively.

❗️For example

🔸I might look awful first thing in the morning, but after a cup of tea and a bit of meditation I'm as fresh as a daisy.

🔸George looked terrible when he got to work, so Annie said, "Fresh as a daisy this morning, are we?" and George just grunted.

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21 февраля 2024 05:53

📒 All truths are not to be told


📖Meaning
Some truths are better left unspoken. It is not always necessary to repeat something even though it be true.

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20 февраля 2024 08:51

📚dot the i's and cross the t's


✍🏾Meaning
If you dot the i's and cross the t's, you do something very carefully to make sure you haven't made any mistakes.

❗️For example

🔸I've nearly finished the report. I just have to go over it once more to dot the i's and cross the t's.

🔸Why can't Jerry dot the i's and cross the t's? I always find mistakes in his work.

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19 февраля 2024 06:16

📒 Every man has his price


📖Meaning
According to this saying, all people can be bribed if you pay enough.

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18 февраля 2024 10:55

📚the upper hand


✍🏾Meaning
If you have the upper hand, you have the advantage or you're in the stronger position in a contest or a conflict.

❗️For example

🔸With one race to go, the Ferrari team has the upper hand. If they get one of the top three places in the last race, they'll win this year's title.

🔸For many years Yahoo was the top search engine, but for the last few years Google has had the upper hand.

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17 февраля 2024 08:30

📒 Opportunity seldom knocks twice


📖Meaning
Take any opportunity or chance when it comes - it may not come again.

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15 февраля 2024 20:33

📒break down (1)


📖Meaning
If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working because of a mechanical problem.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Our bus broke down so we had to get out and wait for another one to come.

💬 Production has stopped because one of the machines at our factory has broken down.


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14 февраля 2024 20:24

💠 bottom 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a man who takes the passive role in gay or homosexual sex

❕For example

🔺Joey made a page about himself on a gay community website and it said he preferred bottoms aged 20 to 40.

🔺When Pedro was in a gay bar he met a guy he really liked, but it soon became clear that they were both bottoms.

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13 февраля 2024 20:33

📒drop off (1)


📖Meaning
to drive someone to a place they need to go to and leave them there

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Every morning I drop my kids off at school on my way to work.

💬 Sergio stopped at the mall and dropped off his mother, and then drove on to the golf course.


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12 февраля 2024 18:30

💠 yips 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
(in phrase the yips) nervous tension that causes mistakes

❕For example

🔺Tiger Woods never seems to get the yips. He always looks calm, even when he's playing a very important shot.

🔺A champion golfer needs to know how to avoid getting the yips.

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